1770
1770 (MDCCLXX) was a
common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day-slower
Julian calendar).
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March 5 -
Boston Massacre: 5
Americans killed by
British troops in an event that would help start the
American Revolutionary War 5 years later.
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May 14 -
Marie Antoinette arrives at the
French court.
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May 16 - 14-year old
Marie Antoinette marries 15-year old
Louis-Auguste (who later becomes
Louis XVI King of France).
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May 16 -
Fireworks at the wedding of the
crown prince of
France in
Paris cause a fire – 800 dead.
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June 3 -
Gasper de Portola and
Father Junipero Serra establish
Monterey, which was the capital of
California from
1777-
1849.
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July 1 -
Comet Lexell (
D/1770 L1) passes the
Earth.
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July 5 -
Battle of Chesma and
Battle of Larga between the
Russian Empire and the
Ottoman Empire.
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July 21 -
Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774:
Russian commander
Pyotr Rumyantsev routs 150,000
Turks in the
Battle of Kagul.
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August 22 -
James Cook claimed for
Great Britain the eastern coast of
New Holland (
Australia).
Unknown dates
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Joseph Priestley,
British chemist, recommends the use of a
rubber to remove
pencil marks.
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Joseph Louis Lagrange proves
Bachet's Conjecture.
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February 21 -
Georges Mouton,
Marshal of France (d.
1838)
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March 2 -
Louis Gabriel Suchet,
Marshal of France (d.
1826)
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March 20 -
Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d.
1843)
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April 7 -
William Wordsworth, English poet (d.
1850)
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April 25 -
Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d.
1850)
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April 30 -
David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (d.
1857)
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May 10 -
Louis Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (d.
1823)
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August 1 -
William Clark, explorer, Governor of Missouri Territory, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs (d.
1838)
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August 3 - King
Frederick William III of Prussia (d.
1840)
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August 27 -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d.
1831)
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December 17 - (baptized)
Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d.
1827)
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december 18 -
Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France and Minister of War (d.
1840)
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January 7 -
Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b.
1695)
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January 20 -
Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b.
1722)
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February 26 -
Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (b.
1692)
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March 5 -
Crispus Attucks, African-American, 1st to die at the Boston Massacre (b.
1723)
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March 27 -
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian artist (b.
1696)
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April 25 -
Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b.
1700)
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May 30 -
François Boucher, French painter (b.
1703)
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June 23 -
Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b.
1721)
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July 27 -
Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (b.
1693)
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August 24 -
Thomas Chatterton, English poet (b.
1752)
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September 30 -
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
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September 30 -
George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b.
1714)
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October 18 -
John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b.
1721)
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November 9 -
John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
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November 13 -
George Grenville,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1712)
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November 24 -
Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b.
1685)
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December 5 -
James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b.
1692)
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Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (b.
1696)
